Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Gambia and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in London.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Soulsonic Force to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish. All the underground hits.
All Manfred Mann's Earth Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Colin Newman record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mighty Diamonds record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Frankie Knuckles,
The Buckinghams,
Delta 5,
Todd Rundgren,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Leonard Cohen,
The Young Rascals,
Susan Cadogan,
Iggy Pop,
Loose Ends,
Max Romeo,
Kerri Chandler,
Soul Sonic Force,
L. Decosne,
Erasure,
Tropical Tobacco,
Gregory Isaacs,
Rapeman,
The Cowsills,
Ituana,
Cheater Slicks,
Essential Logic,
Shuggie Otis,
The Music Machine,
Trumans Water,
Man Parrish,
Little Man,
Animal Collective,
Mars,
The Velvet Underground,
Minutemen,
Lower 48,
Eli Mardock,
Freddie Wadling,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
China Crisis,
Danielle Patucci,
FM Einheit,
Groovy Waters,
Cecil Taylor,
Eddi Front,
Japan,
Rakim,
Crispy Ambulance,
Average White Band,
Bootsy Collins,
The Fortunes,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Ronan,
The Sonics,
June of 44,
Marcia Griffiths,
Godley & Creme,
Jeru the Damaja,
Adolescents,
Brick,
Graham Central Station,
Rufus Thomas,
Gichy Dan,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Pharoah Sanders,
Intrusion,
Glenn Branca, Glenn Branca, Glenn Branca, Glenn Branca.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.